Mon, 30 May 2005
Digital Audio
Bruce Fries, Marty Fries, Digital Audio Essentials, O'Reilly
This book is labelled "A Comprehensive Guide to Creating, Recording, Editing.
and Sharing Music and Other Audio". It is directed at people who don't know
very much to start with -- a newbies guide.
As such, it's fairly ideal. It goes through the practical aspects of playing
and making, and recording sounds, and even includes some notes on copyright
and formats.
The book starts with basics of digital sound and then goes on to look at
equipment needed, connections, ways of playing music, the web, internet radio,
portable players, more on digital sound, formats, and then onto capturing
and editing.
As podcasting is on our minds at the moment we'd have to say that's
a glaring omission but it's likely the book was largely written before
that got going -- and it only really got going last September. There's
also no mention of Surround sound but that topic is probably rightfully
left to something beyond "Essentials".
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